Our purpose
We help interdisciplinary scholars produce socially just and accessible scholarship.
At Ideas on Fire, we are dedicated to empowering scholars through our comprehensive academic editing and indexing services.
We offer a range of services including developmental editing, copyediting, book indexing, and publishing workshops.
Our focus is helping you produce scholarship that ignites change in your communities.
Get in touch to learn how we can help you transform your ideas into published works that make a difference.
Our method
Your interdisciplinary work deserves an interdisciplinary team.
Our unique approach ensures that your work reaches diverse audiences, both within and beyond the academy.
By foregrounding citational justice, conscious language, and intersectional queer feminist ethics, we help you create scholarship that ignites change in your communities.
With Ideas on Fire you don’t just get the perspective of one editor or indexer—you get the collective expertise of a full publishing team.
We’re right there with you from that first glimmer of an idea to publication and beyond.
Our clients
We empower interdisciplinary thinkers and change-makers to spark new worlds.
Ideas on Fire authors include
- early-career faculty working toward tenure
- independent scholars breaking new ground
- mid-career and senior scholars building their intellectual legacy
- activists and artists creating the future
- public intellectuals pushing the conversation forward
We also work with academic publishers, scholarly associations, nonprofits, and university departments to provide structural support for a more just publishing ecosystem.
Our team
Founded by Dr. Cathy Hannabach in 2009, Ideas on Fire brings together a global team of experts who are passionate about helping you achieve your publishing goals.
We are:
- developmental editors who strengthen your manuscript’s argument and help your readers see the big picture
- copyeditors who improve readability and get your manuscript ready for publishers
- indexers who make your book accessible to diverse readers
- proofreaders who ensure that your manuscript is polished and ready for production
- book marketers who help get your work into the communities you care about
“Working with Ideas on Fire was a dream. From providing detailed and accurate information about services to timely and thorough attention to detail and final delivery, I was so delighted to know that my work was in capable hands. It is difficult to find time to think creatively and to also worry about the necessary details about getting a manuscript ready for publication. Ideas on Fire gave me the space to think through my ideas and I knew they would take care of the details at the final stages.”
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